February 2022 – While most people think of swimming pools, desert heat, midcentury modern homes, and celebrities from old Hollywood when they think about Palm Springs, there is an impressive number of challenging and beautiful hiking trails nearby. The temperature was perfect in February and it was a nice break from Wisconsin winter temperatures. Joshua…
October 2023 – What a spectacular way to spend a birthday! We traveled by van, bikes on the roof from the train station in Bordeaux France east a couple of hours to Trémolat to our hotel, Le Vieux Logis, near the Dordogne river. We spent six days cycling west, roughly following the Dordogne river, braving…
July 2023 – Cycling through the Loire Valley in central France in the summer is a special experience! Unimaginably huge sunflower fields appear, one after another as we rode on relatively flat and quiet roads. Many of the roads were so small that it felt as if we were on a path or a driveway…
May 2022 – Bryce Canyon is one of my favorite places. The unique rock formations, called hoodoos, make for an otherworldly landscape. When the sky is deep blue, which it often is, it perfectly complements the orange hue of the hoodoos. It is tough to take a bad picture here. Waking up early to see…